RE: Outlook HTML crash

From: Larry Seltzer (larryat_private)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 18:45:53 PST

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    Confirmed on Outlook 2002, although I'm not sure I'd call this a vulnerability.
    
    LJS
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Nate Nord [mailto:natenordat_private] 
    Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:53 PM
    To: vuln-devat_private
    Subject: FW: Outlook HTML crash
    
    
    
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    > One of our users has discovered an interesting Outlook crash 
    > pertaining to HTML e-mail.  I was wondering if anyone else has seen this.
    > 
    > The crash is pretty simple... reply to an HTML e-mail and throw in a 
    > bunch of carriage returns and random characters in the previous e-mail 
    > space. It seems to take only a few lines of this before Outlook 
    > crashes hard and then closes.
    > 
    > This has been tested on several Outlook 2000 machines and it seems to 
    > work every time.
    



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